Friday, April 14, 2006
6:37 PM
Although I am generally loathe to make a public display of my emotions, there are inevitably times when no amount of self-control and suppression can prevent the emotions from mainfesting into beads of tears that become visible to others nearby and sometimes even end up streaking down both cheeks. Here are a few tips on what to do when such circumstances present themselves to you during the most inopportune moments.
1. Prevention is better than Cure
Crying in public is usually preceeded by a moving or touching moment in a movie, among many other causes. Normally, when one is about to cry, there'd be the usual lump in the throat, a welling of pent-up emotions, or a deep depressing pain from within. If you notice these symptoms, or whatever symptoms you are familiar with that tells you that you are about to be emotionally moved beyond a certain point, then it means that you might just be in time to prevent it from happening.
Start for example, by thinking about how your friends who are about to see you cry will make fun of you for the rest of your life. Detach yourself from the situation you are in, and look at yourself from a distance, and normally, that would make you stop feeling like crying, because you often start to feel silly that you are about to shed tears for something like a movie.
Nevertheless, you may still catch yourself too late, and end up getting irreversibly moved and start to tear. Your eyelids feel warm, and you can feel tears brimming out of your eyes. Oh no!
2. Better late than never
NEVER, never ever move your hands to your eyes before everything is under control. And never glance around to see if anyone is noticing that you're tearing. Just carry on staring right in front as if nothing has happened. Resist all urges to sniff. Blink often, because blinking does not draw immediate attention to you, and it helps to make the tears around your eyes dry up faster.
Once you have it under control, then you can unobstrusively move your hand to your eye to clear whatever incriminating evidence there is that you teared. Naturally, one or two of the more irritating friends of yours will somehow notice you drying your eyes. However, they will be disappointed, because by the time they notice you, it would seem as if you were merely removing dirt from your eyes, and you would've sobered down sufficiently to be able to counter whatever taunt they throw at you. Right?
Still, there is always a possibility that you somehow lost your senses and end up really crying audibly, complete with sobs and sniffs.
3. Damage Control
Generally, you're screwed, but all is not lost! Now you have two choices.
First, you may want to excuse yourself from everyone's sight so that you may cry your hearts out in private. The damage has been done, and your friends would've at least heard you crying for a short time so that they can jibe at you sometime in the near future. However, they probably will not see you at your ugliest if you rush off to say, the toilet fast enough, and thus they'd not be able to say very much except that you started crying.
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The other alternative, is to go all the way.
Start thinking about all the saddest things that's ever happened to you. And then let loose all your emotions and cry hysterically. Chances are, if you manage to cry and sob with enough sadness and misery, and make a big enough deal out of it , your friends might be traumatised by the extent of your being affected, and perhaps decide not to ever bring this issue up to you again in case you may be offended, and may even take turns to comfort you in genuine concern.
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T_T
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Kao. I feel that stifling your emotions when you are about to cry is a SIN!
Haha. Cry! Crying is good for health, but not too hard.
Haha. Cry! Crying is good for health, but not too hard.
Ah! I hate it when people see me cry. Then again I am okay with crying during movies- cos theatre so dark- no one can see anything eh? Hahaha!
Lion
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